The Egyptian military said it killed a senior Daesh (or Islamic State) group ‘cleric’ and ۱۸ members in airstrikes in the Sinai peninsula where the extremists are waging an insurgency.

Hawzah News Agency (Sinai, Egypt) - Among the terrorists killed was “one of the prominent leaders of the so-called Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the head of the religious affairs committee in the group,” the military said on Thursday, April ۲۰th, ۲۰۱۷, without saying when the strikes occurred.